Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

There are two types of people.

"You are a software worker. And you are able to do your job in more or less good conditions only because you are standing on the shoulders of countless others. No, we are not talking here about Open Source. We are talking about the fact that if you have 20 days of holidays, if you only work 5 days a week, if you are able to take some days or weeks off after the birth of your child, it is because some others before you have sacrificed their lives so you can work in decent conditions."

Looking for recommendations for text recognition from scans/photos → plain text with reasonably low error rate from my awful handwriting.

I prefer my notes digital to be searchable and harder to lose track of 😅 so I tend to type them directly or handwrite on a tablet, but I love writing with fountain pen and paper and I've always wanted to incorporate that better into my digital workflow.

Ideally open source, but will also consider paying for a service if good and doesn't sell all my data.

This is probably the best paper I’ve read written on this subject.

What is remarkable is that it basically took just talking to six women/gender diverse people to figure out the common themes that came up.

So often we know what people are doing wrong and what we need, but we need people to actually listen to us.

So glad that there is more acknowledgment that masking is traumatic. It innately tells you to be something you are not.

I did it not because I wanted to, but because if I didn’t I risked social isolation.

But it comes at a huge cost… decades of my life repeatedly burning out just existing in the NT world that culminated in a complete mental breakdown.

Most common people won't be affected by Google's new DRM bs, nearly only people who want (and oftentimes *need* privacy, which also tend to be marginalized people who have a very good reason for it) care, and making the people who are effectively unaffected by whatever bullshit corporations pull annoyed is the entire point

"I got reported for NO REASON and the moderator agreed with the report" is a conspiracy theory as old as language

If you're still using Chrome for performance reasons:
- Firefox is now faster than Chrome out-of-the-box
- Firefox uses less memory than Chrome
- Contrary to Chrome, Firefox does not restrict Ad blockers, which will make your browsing experience much faster (and safer).

"I'm gonna relax and spend some time playing my favourite childhood computer and video games!"

-- 3 HOURS LATER --

"I just spent some time organizing and sorting various different versions of my favourite childhood games in various different formats!"

People on the asexual spectrum, do you have words for sexual-ish intercourse, which aren't loaded with the usual preconceptions of penetration and orgasm? Anything describing the vast space of possibilities between "cuddling" and "sex"?

While I'm digging through my old watercolor work, here's my big fifteen-minutes-of-fame, frontpage-of-reddit-several-times comic that got retweeted into orbit in the days of Early Twitter, from around 2009-2010.

It's an open secret that if you get a cute fox involved, you're bound to get loads of traction with computer people.

#firefox #watercolor #WebComic #MastoArt

i think one of the biggest absolutely disgusting things about capitalism is that it somehow convinced people that helping others without expecting anything in return is somehow bad

Isometric city inspired in regular colombian citys. i started this piece when Colombia's team did amazing in the women's world cup under 17 but i finally finish it while we are at the Women's world cup.

#PixelArt #MastoArt #isometric #digitalart

I'm seeing more boosts of (often interesting) art without image descriptions

they don't need to be fancy! just write in what you'd tell your friend if you wanted to show them the image & their internet was busted or something. there's something about it that you're trying to convey by showing the image; write that down

(otoh if you're going to repost uncredited art maybe just. don't.)

@joepie91 I just think about that line from that one Dan Olsen video, actually two lines, the one about how tech bros think they're uniquely positioned to solve the world's problems, and also the one about how the problem isn't the tech, it's patterns of human behaviour.

Yes, programmers have and will complain about the implementation of the tools, but the tools weren't the problem.